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CPC Fellow Popkin Awarded Grant from NIH
CPC Fellow and Professor of Nutrition, Barry Popkin has been awarded a 5-year grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
"Diet, Activity, Obesity & the Built Environment Dynamics" is a longitudinal study with work continuing until June of 2010. Co-Investigators of the project are Penny Gordon-Larsen, CPC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Nutrition, and
David Guilkey, CPC Fellow and a Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished
Professor of Economics.
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MacArthur Foundation Awards Grant to CPC Fellow Leslie
Paul Leslie, CPC Fellow and professor of anthropology, has been awarded a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. The 18-month study, entitled “Alternative Consequences of Migration for Land Use and Conservation in Northern Tanzania”, was co-awarded to Terrence McCabe at the University of Colorado Boulder. Work on this study is underway, as the award was granted April 1, 2005. For more information on this study, please visit https://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/grants.php?show=102....
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CPC Fellows Walsh and Bilsborrow Awarded Grant from NASA
NASA has awarded a grant to Stephen J. Walsh, CPC Fellow and and
Professor of Geography, and to Richard E. Bilsborrow, CPC Fellow and
Professor of Biostatistics, for a two-year study entitled "Multi-Agent
Models of Land Cover/Land Use Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian
Amazon: Coupling Human & Natural Systems through Pattern-Process
Relationships and Spatial Simulations." The funding period begins
January 2006. For more information about this study, please visit http://www.cpc.unc.edu/pro...
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Anna Maria Siega-Riz President-elect of SPER
Anna Maria Siega-Riz was
elected president-elect of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
(SPER) at their annual meeting in June.
She will serve as president in 2006-2007 and will preside at the annual
meeting in Boston in June 2007. Congratulations
to Anna Maria!
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Barbara Entwisle President-elect of PAA
CPC is pleased to announce that Barbara Entwisle has been elected President-elect of the Population Association of America.
She will serve as President during 2006-2007 and will preside over the PAA meeting in New York City, March, 2007. Congratulations to Barbara on this well-deserved recognition of her commitment to the population field.
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New National Survey of Children's Health Data Web Site
The following news item was sent by Christina Bethell, Director, The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative.
The National Survey of Children's Health Data Resource Center is now
posted as a public site. The link is www.nschdata.org
. Please send contact information
(e-mail lists, etc) of people and organizations you think should be
included in the formal announcement of the site (in June).
This is the "soft launch" of the site. This means that it...
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